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When Bai Feng learned from Maxi that the barbarian bow craftsmen had really made a crossbow, he was extremely shocked and couldn't believe it;

With a hand-drawn drawing without a detailed structure, they made the crossbow that made the European Middle Ages look so colorful, were they really the bow craftsmen of the barbarians? What about the good barbarians who are backward, and the good barbarians who are ignorant?

Everyone present did not understand why His Excellency the Governor had changed his face after hearing this news, it was because they did not understand the meaning of the appearance of the crossbow, and it was no exaggeration to say that it was one of the most important weapons affecting the era of cold weapons!

At present, whether it is the Bai family of the Heavenly Dragon Empire where Bai Feng was before, or the barbaric land where Bai Feng is now, there is no weapon like a crossbow, and even the more common bows are relatively primitive and have a very short range.

The invention of the Leng Locust Longbow gave the city of Rome a powerful long-range strike force, and the disparity in casualties in the Battle of the Longbow is the best praise for the Leng Locust Longbow, even if it is a special record under special circumstances, it is a real record.

Even without the muddy terrain, the range of the longbowmen is still astonishing, and if combined with the combination of crossbows, the army of Rome will have the most complete long-range strike force in the world.

Speaking of crossbows, we have to mention the appearance of crossbows on the earth; crossbows are a kind of cold weapons on the earth in ancient times, an important part of ancient Chinese military and vehicle warfare, and an effective weapon for infantry to effectively restrain cavalry and other types of troops.

The crossbow is also known as the "nest bow" and "cross bow", a weapon used to shoot arrows in ancient times, and it is itself a special bow equipped with arms, mainly composed of crossbow arms, crossbow bows, bowstrings and crossbow machines.

Although the crossbow has a much longer reload time than the bow, it has a longer range, stronger lethality, higher hit rate, and lower requirements for the user than the bow, making it a powerful long-range killing weapon in ancient times.

The reason why the crossbow can be a lethal weapon and is widely used is that it does not require much training to operate, and even a new recruit can quickly become a master of using a crossbow, and the accuracy is high enough to kill an armored knight who has spent a lifetime training in combat.

Especially in the Middle Ages in Europe, the crossbow was considered an illicit weapon because it required very little skill to operate, and Richard the Lionheart of England was shot twice by a crossbow arrow and died of his wounds the second time.

The death of such a great man at the hands of an ordinary or lowly soldier was appalling to the pretentious aristocracy, and for this reason the Pope tried to ban the use of crossbows on the grounds of cruelty in the twelfth century.

Although the crossbow has many advantages, such as longer range, high accuracy, etc., the real advantage that stands out over the bow is the delay in its firing; the crossbow can be fired whenever it wants, but the bow cannot.

The crossbowman can wind up the crossbow and aim carefully and slowly, or follow the commander's command to pull the crossbow, while the bow can only be fired immediately while aiming, and it is difficult to match the accuracy of a crossbow.

Even so, the emergence of the crossbow could not replace the original bow, even the ordinary bow with no range and accuracy as the crossbow could not be replaced by the crossbow, let alone the Roman city with the cold locust longbow, the invention of the crossbow was only on a par with the longbow.

Even, this newly invented crossbow simply could not occupy the same position as the cold locust longbow, and the reason was very simple, the production process of the cross crossbow was much more complicated than that of the cold locust longbow, and the overly complicated production process would inevitably make it impossible for the crossbow to be mass-produced.

In addition, a bow with the same pull would normally have three to four times the rate of fire of a crossbow, and given the operation of the crossbow when loading arrows, it would be safe to say that it would be quadruple, but it would be too optimistic to say that it would be tripled.

What does this mean? This means that in about fifteen seconds, an average archer can shoot four arrows, while a crossbowman can only shoot one, and such a disparity in the rate of fire greatly reduces the military value of the crossbow.

Because in the field of large-scale engagements, the accuracy of the shot is no longer very important, the most important thing is the continuous output of the firepower and the density of coverage, from this point of view, the bow is obviously much better than the crossbow.

The reason why crossbows have been used on a large scale on ancient battlefields is that their range is greater than that of bows, in other words, crossbows have stronger penetrating power, and even longbows with extremely long ranges cannot have the same powerful penetrating power as crossbows.

In particular, in the classification of crossbows, there is also a kind of powerful individual crossbow with both hands and feet, which can kill the enemy's heavy armor more effectively than the bow, so the powerful crossbow unit is also an indispensable type of long-range strike force, which is especially obvious in ancient China.

In ancient China, long-range troops have always paid equal attention to bows and crossbows, and this situation has been maintained until the Ming Dynasty quasi-heat weapons began to gradually be equipped with troops, and crossbows were gradually eliminated; the reason for the elimination was that the rate of fire was about the same, but the quasi-heat weapons were more powerful, and the killing and firing range were longer.

Of course, the drawings of the cross crossbow that Bai Feng hand-painted for the craftsmen were not pure European medieval crossbows, but a kind of crossbow similar to crossbows;

This is because the heavy knights of the European Middle Ages could hardly use bow weapons except for the standard equipment of spears and sword hammers, so they had to use single-shot hand crossbows, which were basically melee weapons, and were completely different from the crossbows drawn by Bai Feng.

After letting Darnell disband and return to the camp with the assembled cavalry on the spot, Bai Feng, who was in high spirits, rushed to the direction of the bow making workshop accompanied by Maxi; Bai Feng, who came to the workshop, did not have time to greet the craftsmen, but was attracted by the crossbow on the side.

The crossbow that appeared in front of Bai Feng's eyes was not the crossbow on the drawing he had drawn before, but a brand-new crossbow, which was much larger than the crossbow, should be the legendary stepping crossbow!

The so-called stepping crossbow is the kick-opening crossbow, this kind of domineering weapon is also called the waist open crossbow, the crossbow can be divided into the arm tension crossbow, the waist tension crossbow, the kick-tension crossbow, etc., according to the way of pulling the string;

When using this weapon, the general warrior must use the crossbow of the arm, foot and waist at the same time in a sitting position, sit flat on the ground and lay the crossbow flat in front of him, and put the left and right soles of his feet into his thumb, and then pry the waist hook and hook the crossbow string.

The range and power of the crossbow can bring a devastating blow to the enemy, and the terrifying crossbow can even shoot 600 meters!

However, that is the use of the crossbow on the earth, in this different world of sword and magic, Bai Feng used a little spiritual power, and opened this crossbow with one hand, and it was very easy to put the special crossbow arrow into the arrow magazine.